No Settlement Yet In Cemetery Talks

December 05, 1985

After five hours of negotiations Wednesday, striking cemetery workers and cemetery managers failed to reach a settlement in the 11-day dispute that has delayed hundreds of burials. No new talks have been scheduled, said Edward Cawley, business manager for Local 106, Service Employees International, the striking workers` union. Larry Anspach, a spokesman for the Cemeteries Association of Greater Chicago, declined to comment on the negotiations designed to end the strike affecting 29 Chicago-area cemeteries. ``We are very disappointed. We were optimistic,`` Cawley said. ``I guess we`re go back to the picket line.``